Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of heating furnaces and pipes.
BL 22541/6
Description Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of heating furnaces and pipes.
Date 1914
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 22541/6
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Boiler House, the New Picture House, No 56 Princes Street, Edinburgh The New Picture House, Princes Street, designed by Atkinson & Alexander, opened in 1913 as a cinema complex on the lower floors of a hotel on the site. A series of photographs of the interior was taken in 1914 by the photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The spotlessly-clean boiler house was situated in the basement. Its massive coal-fired boilers fuelled a heating system which not only supplied the auditorium which had a seating capacity of almost 1,000 people, but also two tea rooms and a café. The New Picture House was designed for 'the top end of market'. It opening attractions included an air-conditioning system that guaranteed to change the air in the auditorium 12 times an hour, and a full orchestra which accompanied the silent films. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
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